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Ok Grazr's idea is a go.
Dinosaurs:
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Upon testing it out, it's very hard to quickly rack up broken caps, because it takes longer for the cap to decay than it does to cap, even touching it for a small amount of time leads to you waiting for the decay. In which time you either have to run off and chance an encounter with the other team or stay put and chance an encounter with the other team coming to kill you.
So it is less greifable than sergis makes it sound (A highly caffeinated and ridiculously twitch skilled scout may be able to do it better but each broken cap takes 2 seconds)
Dinosaurs:
EDIT:
Upon testing it out, it's very hard to quickly rack up broken caps, because it takes longer for the cap to decay than it does to cap, even touching it for a small amount of time leads to you waiting for the decay. In which time you either have to run off and chance an encounter with the other team or stay put and chance an encounter with the other team coming to kill you.
So it is less greifable than sergis makes it sound (A highly caffeinated and ridiculously twitch skilled scout may be able to do it better but each broken cap takes 2 seconds)
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First time i saw BLU's final area and it was a lot more fun to defend than RED's. But i would say that the final points almost always seem to be captured by attackers, easily, within the time limit. Defenders just don't seem to have any fall back position or decent sentry locations.
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Weirdly it seems to be a larger issue with custom rocks by the look of it. There was one person in a test we ran yesterday (on a different map) complaining of invisible rocks when everyone else could see them just fine, and they were rocks that were made by VFIG, not rexy.
By the way Y_M we should be testing this on Friday remind me to give you the demo in the playstuff thread.
By the way Y_M we should be testing this on Friday remind me to give you the demo in the playstuff thread.
I suspect it's something we can't do anything about--and my reasoning is because this seems to be a very recent problem, only happening in the last month or so. Something about packed materials in the .bsp and how they're being handled somewhere by the engine. This is only me talking from what I've seen, I don't know specifically why or what, and I don't have the technical knowledge for that either. And those rocks that vfig made have been around for a few years--and I don't recall this problem before, so blaming the models or the textures for the problem doesn't make any sense.
Regardless, the problem can always be solved by quitting, deleting the map, and downloading the map again. This seems to fix everyone's issue when this happens. Not sure why, but it works.
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Ezekel
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the other day i loaded up an old map of mine only to have a tree model not render till i reloaded the map - it may be something to do with the number of models and/or custom models that have to be loaded on the map perhaps causing a few to be skipped rarely (the map in question has an absurd number of custom models/textures pakked into it). - just hypothesis really, as i'm not concrete on the way that assets are loaded to memory by the source engine.
Since assets are retained in memory when you leave a map, this means reloading the map requires it to load fewer assets to memory, allowing it to catch the ones that may have got missed.
i guess the question is whether the problem gets fixed if you reload the map
Since assets are retained in memory when you leave a map, this means reloading the map requires it to load fewer assets to memory, allowing it to catch the ones that may have got missed.
i guess the question is whether the problem gets fixed if you reload the map
I can't help but feel that the building that you recently turned from red brick to blue could use the metal/wall012 texture as it's roof material rather than the red one you're using now.
The gutter also has a secondary blue skin, but that might be a little too much blue. That said, i never really did like the gutter models. They're so chunky compared to the corrugated metal roofs they just look weird unless used at a distance (like in the out of bounds areas).
The gutter also has a secondary blue skin, but that might be a little too much blue. That said, i never really did like the gutter models. They're so chunky compared to the corrugated metal roofs they just look weird unless used at a distance (like in the out of bounds areas).
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Damn youme, that's some mighty fine detailing! Can I suggest putting some more shrubs and dirt/rubble stuff on the sandy floor? It could help break the flatness a little since there aren't any detailsprites.. Just an idea
Damn youme, that's some mighty fine detailing! Can I suggest putting some more shrubs and dirt/rubble stuff on the sandy floor? It could help break the flatness a little since there aren't any detailsprites.. Just an idea
Not even touched the sand yet, since it will all be displaced at once at a later date it would be pointless taking the time to position props carefully on it.
Yes grazr ever since I swapped out the brick last night the roof and gutter have been irking me, they're top of my tweak list.
Birthday today so I'll either do it tonight or tomorrow.
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